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...story?they lived in the village after all, they knew their kids were regularly assembling fireworks and they had seen the ripped-apart school with their own eyes?and suddenly Fanglin pointed up many of the tensions pulling at today's China: well-off urbanites vs. the struggling peasantry; Confucian respect for learning vs. teachers' miserliness; and most of all the government's tendency to cover things up vs. a society that increasingly demands the truth...
...ungenerous can Mr. Webster be? Isn't sex something unbelievably profound: the very issue upon which the shoulder-perched angel and devil debate, the very act by which all of us were forged and, last but not least, the powerful, enigmatic engines in our collective Freudian and Darwinian (or Confucian and Buddhist) boiler rooms? If there are sex maniacs, after all, what are they getting maniacal about? The two divisions of animals and plants...
...comments received such a strong reaction. I am heartened to find controversial statements can get students riled up about what they hear from the Faculty out of the classroom. The more pressing question is whether similarly provocative, and perhaps untrue, statements can energize students in the classroom, discussing Confucian thought as well as affirmative action...
...Internet has also provoked something of a cultural revolution. In a society still deeply influenced by conservative Confucian values, the anonymity and freedom of cyberspace has provided an escape from old-style mores that the young in particular find oppressive. The Web has made casual encounters between the sexes much easier in a society where Western-style dating is a relatively new concept. Online dating is hugely popular among high school and university students...
...welcome South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, the makeover of the madman image was complete. The 58-year-old leader of the world's most mysterious country had been transformed into a fellow who could crack jokes at his own expense, banter about kimchi recipes and show proper Confucian deference to the elder President Kim. "I am aware that one of your legs is not very comfortable," he remarked to his 74-year-old South Korean counterpart during the limousine drive from the airport to the capital. Clasping Kim Dae Jung's hands in a surprisingly touching show of warmth...